James Brown lost a quarter of his weight since October https://t.co/73OYmMyPZCpic.twitter.com/yNJ3hOw9N5

— Dan Steinberg (@dcsportsbog) June 28, 2017

He told Jason Romano on the Sports Spectrum podcast that it took some motivation from ex-Fox colleague Howie Long to get to where he is (as transcribed by the Washington Post):

“You know, I had been battling this for quite some time,” he told Romano. “I would always tease and say when I started doing football . . . [that] I really threw myself into the job. And Howie Long, my colleague at Fox, used to tease with a bunch of his buddies, asking, ‘Man, what line did he play on? I mean, he obviously played for somebody.’ So I was trying to look the part, until Howie told me…